A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Games and Play
Allison, David B. "Derrida and Wittgenstein: Playing the Game." Research in Phenomenology 8 (1978): 93-109.
Alvarez, A. The Biggest Game in Town. Essay.
Arnaudo, Marco. Storytelling in the Modern Board Game: Narrative Trends from the Late 1960s to Today. (Studies in Gaming). Jefferson (NC): McFarland, 2018.*
Online preview at Google Books:
https://books.google.es/books?id=IERsDwAAQBAJ
2019
Axline, Virginia. Play Therapy: The Inner Dynamics of Childhood. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947.
Bateson, Gregory. "A Theory of Play and Fantasy." 1954. In Steps to an Ecology of Mind. Ed. G. Bateson. San Francisco: Chandler, 1972. 177-93.
Baudrillard, Jean. De la séduction. Paris: Galilée, 1979.
_____. De la séduction. Paris: Denoël, 1988.*
_____. Seduction. Trans. Brian Singer. London: Macmillan, 1990.
BBC News. "No Words to Describe Monkey's Play." BBC News 9 May 2003.*
http://nws.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3013959.stm
2009
Bedell, Geraldine. Party Games.
Berne, Eric. Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships. New York: Grove Press, 1964.
Boyd, Brian. "Part 5: Ontogeny: Horton Hears a Who!" In Boyd, On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction. Cambridge (MA) and London: Harvard UP-Belknap Press, 2009. 319-79.* (Play, Explanation, Universality, Individuality, Particularity, Meanings).
Bretherton, J. Symbolic Play. New York: Academic Press, 1984.
Bruner, J. S., and V. Sherwood. "Early Rule Structure: The Case of 'Peekaboo'." In Life Sentences. Ed. R. Harre. New York: Wiley, 1976.
Bruss, Elizabeth W. "The Game of Literature and Some Literary Games." New Literary History 9.1 (1977): 153-72.
Caillois, Roger. L'homme et le sacré. 1950. Rev. ed. Paris: Gallimard, 1988.
_____. Les Jeux et les hommes. Paris: Gallimard, 1958.
_____. Man, Play, and Games. New York: Free Press, 1961.
_____. Man, Play, and Games. Trans. Meyer Barash. New York, 1962.
Caro, Rodrigo. Días geniales y lúdricos. (Games in Rome and Renaissance). Madrid: Espasa-Calpe.
Conde Rodríguez, Ángeles. "Por qué es preocupante que los niños no jueguen tanto como antes." The Conversation 29 March 2023.*
https://theconversation.com/por-que-es-preocupante-que-los-ninos-no-jueguen-tanto-como-antes-201013
2023
Cotton, Charles. (?). The Compleat Gamester.
Cross, Gary. Kids's Stuff: Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood. Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP, 1998.
Dadlez, E. M. "Make-Believe Wickedness vs. Wicked Make-Believe: RPGs, Imagination and Moral Complicity." In How to Make Believe: The Fictional Truths of the Representational Arts. Ed. J. Alexander Bareis and Lene Nordrum. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. 309-22.* (Role-Playing Games).
Denham, John (Sir). An Essay upon Gaming. 1630s?
Detweiler, Robert. "Games and Play in Modern American Literature." Contemporary Literature 17.1 (1976).
D'Israeli, I. "Gaming." In D'Israeli, Curiosities of Literature. London: Moxon, 1834. 1.274-9.*
Ebert, Christopher. "Earth Game and the Enheduanna Model: A Data Backed Method for Producing Prosocial Effects through Narrative." Academia (Christopher Ebert) 2024.*
https://www.academia.edu/122672428/
2024
Ehrmann, Jacques. "Homo Ludens Revisited." Yale French Studies 41 (1968): 31-57.
Evans, Mary Ann. "Play beyond Play: Its Role in Formal Informative Speech." In Play, Language, and Stories: The Development of Children's Literate Behavior. Ed. Lee Galda and Anthony D. Pellegrini. Norwood (NJ): Ablex, 1985.
Faxardo, Francisco Luque. Fiel desengaño contra la ociosidad y los juegos. Madrid, 1603.
_____. Fiel desengaño contra la ociosidad y los juegos. (Biblioteca Selecta de Clásicos Españoles). Madrid: Real Academia Española, 1955.
Fine, Gary Alan. Shared Fantasy: Role-Playing Games as Social Worlds. Chicago, 1983.
Fink, Eugen. "The Oasis of Happiness: Toward an Ontology of Play." Yale French Studies 41 (1982): 19-30.
Gadamer, Hans-Georg. "4. El juego como hilo conductor de la explicación ontológica." In Gadamer, Verdad y método: Fundamentos de una hermenéutica filosófica. Trans. Ana Agud Aparicio and Rafael de Agapito. (Trans. of 4th ed.). Salamanca: Sígueme, 1977.* (El concepto del juego. La transformación del juego en construcción y la mediación total. La temporalidad de la estética. El ejemplo de lo trágico). (Schiller, etc.).
Galda, Lee, and Anthony D. Pellegrini, ed. Play, Language, and Stories: The Development of Children's Literate Behavior. Norwood (NJ): Ablex, 1985.
García Landa, José Ángel. "Gillian Beer on Gambling in the Novel." 1990. Online at García Landa, Vanity Fea 21 Dec. 2024.*
https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2024/12/gillian-beer-on-gambling-in-novel.html
2024
_____. "Implicarse en el juego." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 13 July 2013.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2013/07/implicarse-en-el-juego_1963.html
2013
_____. "El Gran Juego." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 2 Feb. 2014.* (Arsuaga and Martín-Loeches).
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2014/02/el-gran-juego.html
2014
Garvey, Catherine. Children's Play. Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP, 1977.
Geertz, Clifford. "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight." In Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays. New York: Basic Books, 1973. 412-453.
Gezari, Janet Krasny. "Games Fiction: The World of Play and the Novels of Vladimir Nabokov." Dissertation Yale University, 1971. Dissertation Abstracts International 32 (1972): 6974 A.
Goffman, Erving. "Fun in Games." In Goffman, Encounters. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1961.
_____. "Expression games: An Analysis of Doubts at Play." In Goffman, Strategic Interaction. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, cop. 1969. 2nd pr., 1970. 1-81.*
_____. Strategic Interaction. (Conduct and Communication, 1). Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, cop. 1969. 2nd pr., 1970.*
Golding, Helen. "'The Story of the Night Told Over': D. W. Winnicott's Theory of Play and A Midsummer Night's Dream." In Shakespeare's Comedies. Ed. Gary Waller. London: Longman, 1991. 92-105.*
Gottfried, A. W., and C. C. Brown, eds. Play Interactions. Skillman (NJ): Johnson & Johnson, 1985.
Gray, P. Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life. New York: Basic Books, 2013.
Groos, K. Die Spiele der Menschen.1899.
Grunfeld, Frederic V. Juegos de todo el mundo. Madrid: UNICEF / Edilan, 1978.
Guilbaud, Georges. Elements de la théorie mathématique des jeux. Paris: Dunod, 1968.
Harrigan, Pat, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin, eds. First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game. Cambridge (MA): MIT Press.
_____, eds. Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007.
Huizinga, Johan. Homo Ludens: Proeve eener bepaling van het spelement der cultur. 1938.
_____. Homo ludens. Madrid: Alianza, 1990.
_____. Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture. Trans. R. F. C. Hull. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1949.
_____. Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture. Boston: Beacon, 1955.
_____. Homo Ludens. Boston: Beacon, 1960.
_____. Homo Ludens. Madrid: Alianza, 1972.
_____. Homo ludens. Trans. Eugenio Imaz. (El Libro de Bolsillo). Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1972. 3rd ed. 2012. Rpt. 2015.*
_____. Homo Ludens. Polish trans. Maria Kurecka and Witold Wirpsza. Warsaw: Czytelnik, 1967.
_____. "Introducción a modo de prólogo." In Huizinga, Homo ludens. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2015. 9-12.*
_____. "1. Esencia y significación del juego como fenómeno cultural." In Huizinga, Homo ludens. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2015. 13-53.*
_____. "2. El concepto de juego y sus expresiones en el lenguaje." In Huizinga, Homo ludens. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2015. 54-79.*
_____. "3. Juego y competición, función creadora de cultura." In Huizinga, Homo ludens. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2015. 80-122.*
_____. "4. El juego y el derecho." In Huizinga, Homo ludens. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2015. 123-38.*
_____. "5. El juego y la guerra." In Huizinga, Homo ludens. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2015. 139-62.*
_____. "6. El juego y el saber." In Huizinga, Homo ludens. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2015. 163-82.*
_____. "7. Juego y poesía." In Huizinga, Homo ludens. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2015. 183-206.*
_____. "8. Papel de la figuración poética." In Huizinga, Homo ludens. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2015. 207-21.*
_____. "9. Formas lúdicas de la filosofía." In Huizinga, Homo ludens. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2015. 222-38.*
_____. "10. Formas lúdicas del arte." In Huizinga, Homo ludens. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2015. 239-61.*
_____. "11. Las culturas y las épocas sub specie ludi." In Huizinga, Homo ludens. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2015. 262-93.*
_____. "12. El elemento lúdico en la cultura actual." In Huizinga, Homo ludens. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2015. 294-322.*
Hutcheon, Linda. "Actualizing Narrative Structures: Detective Plot, Fantasy, Games, and the Erotic." In Hutcheon, Narcissistic Narrative. London: Routledge, 1984. 71-86.*
Hutchinson, P. Games Authors Play. London: Methuen, 1983.
Jackson, Matthew O. "An Introduction to the Basics of Game Theory." SSRN 5 Dec. 2011.*
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1968579
2015
Jiménez-Buedo, María. "Elección racional / Teoría de la decisión / Teoría de juegos." In Compendio de Lógica, Argumentación y Retórica. Ed. Luis Vega Reñón and Paula Olmos Gómez. Madrid: Trotta, 2011. 3rd ed. 2016. 221-23.*
Johnson, Christopher. "The Element of Play ... " In Johnson, System and Writing in the Philosophy of Jacques Derrida. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993. 109-41.*
Kelly-Byrne, D. "A Narrative of Play and Intimacy." In The World of Play. West Point (NY): Leisure P, 1983.
Lecannelier, Felipe. "Juego de ficción, narrativa, y desarrollo de la experiencia humana." Instituto de Terapia cognitiva (INTECO), Santiago de Chile. Website.
http://www.inteco.cl/articulos/014/texto_esp.htm
2006-04-19
Libro de los juegos. Medieval. (1st work on chess).
Luce, R., and H. Raiffa. Games and Decisions. New York: Wiley and Sons, 1958.
Lutas, Liviu. "Metalepsis and Participation in Games of Make-Believe." In How to Make Believe: The Fictional Truths of the Representational Arts. Ed. J. Alexander Bareis and Lene Nordrum. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. 203-22.*
Lyotard, Jean-François, and Jean-Loup Thébaud. Just Gaming. Trans. Wlad Godzich. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1985.
Mangiron, Carme. "Games without Borders: The Cultural Dimension of Game Localisation." Hermeneus 18 (2016): 187-208.*
Maynard-Smith, J. "The Theory of Games and the Evolution of Animal Conflicts." Journal of Theoretical Biology 47 (1974): 209-21.
_____. Evolution and the Theory of Games. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1982.
Meier, Jan-Niklas. Erzählen im Pen-and-Paper-Rollenspiel: Produktion – Rezeption – Didaktik. (Narratologia, 84). Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2023.* (Narrativity, Narrative structure, Games, Immersion).
Millar, Susanna. The Psychology of Play. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968.
Mishler, Elliot G. "'Wou' you trade cookies with the popcorn?': Talk of Trades among Six Year Olds." In Language, Children and Society. Ed. O. K. Garnica and M. L. King. New York: Pergamon, 1975.
Montrose, Louis A. "Sport by Sport O'erthrown: Love's Labour's Lost and the Politics of Play." In Shakespeare's Comedies. Ed. Gary Waller. (Longman Critical Readers). Harlow: Longman, 1991. Rpt. Addison Wesley Longman, 1996. 57-72.*
Oriard, Michael. Sporting with the Gods: The Rhetoric of Play and Game in American Literature. (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, 45). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991.
The Oxford Guide to Word Games. New York: Oxford UP, 1984.
Piaget, Jean. Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood. New York: Norton, 1951.
_____. Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood. London, 1951.
_____. Play, Dreams, and Imitation in Childhood. Oxford: Routledge, 2000.
Rapoport, Anatol. Fights, Games and Debates. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1960.
_____. Two-Person Game Theory. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1966.
Reglamentos de los principales juegos de baraja y de salón. Ed. Iberia, 193-?
Roberts, J., B. Sutton-Smith, et al. "Strategy in Games and Folk Tales." In Mythology. Ed. P. Maranda. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Penguin Books, 1963. 194-211.
Salen, Katie, and Eric Zimmerman. Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals. Cambridge (MA): MIT Press, 2004.
Sánchez Ferlosio, Rafael. "Juegos y deportes." El País 9 Aug. 1992. In Sánchez Ferlosio, QWERTYUIOP: Ensayos IV - Sobre enseñanza, deportes, televisión, publicidad, trabajo y ocio. Ed. Ignacio Echevarría. Barcelona: Penguin Random House - Debate, 2017. 242-46.*
Sauer, Thomas. Spieltheorie. Berlin: Logos, 2017.*
Schwartz, Ursula. Young Children's Dyadic Pretend Play. (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series 14). Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1991.
Schwartzmann, Helen. Transformations: The Anthropology of Children's Play. New York: Plenum Press, 1978.
Séris, J.-P., ed. La Théorie des jeux. Paris: PUF, 1974.
Somervile, William. Hobbinol, or the Rural Games. Poem. 1740.
Spariosu, Mihai I.God of Many Names: Play, Poetry, and Power in Hellenic Thought from Homer to Aristotle." Rev. in Poetics Today 14.4 (1993): 763-766.
Spinka, Marek, Ruth C. Newberry and Marc Bekoff. "Mammalian Play: Training for the Unexpected." The Quarterly Review of Biology 76 (2001): 141-68.
Stevenson, R. L. "Child's Play." In Stevenson, Virginibus puerisque and Other Papers. London: Chatto, 1920. 151-66.*
_____. "Juego de niños." In Stevenson, Obras completas. Barcelona: RBA, 2005. 4.586-93.*
Strutt. Sports and Pastimes.
Suckling, Maurice W. Paper Time Machines: Critical Game Design and Historical Board Games. New York: Routledge, 2024.
https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003359265
2024
Sutton-Smith, Brian. "The Play of Girls." In Women in Context. Ed. C. B. Kopp and M. Kirkpatrick. New York: Plenum, 1979.
_____. Play and Learning. New York: Gardner P, 1979.
_____. Toys as Culture. New York: Gardner P, 1985.
Szasz, Thomas S. The Myth of Mental Illness. New York: Hoeber-Harper, 1961.
_____. El mito de la enfermedad mental. Trans. Flora Setaro. Introd. Antonio Escohotado. (Biblioteca Universal; Ensayo Contemporáneo). Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores, 1999.*
Van Hoorn, J. "Games of Infancy: Their Function in Cognitive Development and Enculturation." Paper presented to A.E.R.A., Montreal, April 1983.
von Neumann, John, and Oskar Morgenstern. Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1944. 2nd ed. Princeton (NJ): Princeton UP, 1947.
Walker, Jill. "A Network of Quests in World of Warcraft." In Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media. Ed. Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007.
Walton, J. Michael. "'An Agreeable Innovation': Play and Translation." In Translation and the Classic: Identity as Change in the History of Culture. Ed. Alexandra Lianeri and Vanda Zajko. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008. 261-77.*
Weibull, J. Evolutionary Game Theory. Cambridge (MA): MIT Press, 1997.
Weinrich, Paul. Equilibrium and Rationality: Game Theory Revised by Decision Rules. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
Winnicott, D. W. "Virginia Axline." Notes on Play Therapy: The Inner Dynamics of Childhood. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947. From D. W. Winnicott, Psychoanalytic Explorations. In D. W. Winnicott, Obras escogidas II. Barcelona: RBA, 2006. 526-29.*
_____. "Notas sobre el juego." From D. W. Winnicott, Psychoanalytic Explorations. In D. W. Winnicott, Obras escogidas II. Barcelona: RBA, 2006. 74-79.*
_____. Playing and Reality. London: Tavistock, 1971.
_____. Playing and Reality. Harmonsworth: Penguin, 1974.
_____. Realidad y juego. Barcelona: GEDISA, 1986.
_____. "El jugar y la cultura." Lecture to the Imago Group, 12 March 1968. From D. W. Winnicott, Psychoanalytic Explorations. In D. W. Winnicott, Obras escogidas II. Barcelona: RBA, 2006. 226-29.*
Yegorov, Boris Fedorovich. (Б. Ф. Егоров). "Игровые аспекты культуры: концепции Ю. М. Лотмана и В. С. Вахрушева" ("The Play Aspects of Culture: The Conceptions of Yuri M. Lotman and V. S. Vakhrushev"). In СЕМИОСФЕРА НАРРАТОЛОГИИ: ДИАЛОГ ЯЗЫКОВ И КУЛЬТУР / Semiosphere of Narratology: A Dialogue of Languages and Cultures. Ed. Ludmila Tataru and José Angel García Landa. Balashov: Nikolayev, 2013. 25-36.*
Internet resources
Eye-in-the-sky: La verdad científica sobre los juegos de azar.*
2010
Game Research
Ludology.org
2005-09-25
Journals
Game Studies 4.1 (2004):
Games and Culture (17 Oct. 2023).*
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15554120231206429
2023
Play & Culture 2 (1989).
Literature
Ackerman, Diane. Deep Play.
Centlivre, Susannah. The Gamester. London, 1723.
Cline, Ernest. Ready Player One. SF novel. Broadway Books, 2012.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307887448/
2017
Gay, John. Rural Sports. Poem. 1713.
Godwin, William. St. Leon. Novel. London, 1799. many editions. (Addictive gaming)
Martín, Andreu. El Diablo en el juego de rol. Young adult novel. (Colección Alandar, 14). Zaragoza: Edelvives, 2002. (II Premio Alandar de Narrativa Juvenil, Editorial Edelvives).
Martini, Fernando. "Quen sabe el juego no debe enseñarlo." Drama. In Antología de piezas cortas de teatro. Ed. Nicolás González Ruiz. Barcelona: Labor, 1965. 2.1121-34.*
Series
(Studies in Gaming). Series ed. Matthew Wilhelm Kapell. Jefferson (NC): McFarland, c. 2018.*
Video
Diesen, Glenn. "Jeffrey Sachs and John Mearsheimer. "Spheres of Security to Prevent World War III." Video. YouTube (Glenn Diesen) 16 Oct. 2025.* (Geopolitics; Geostrategy; Imperialism; Security; Game theory; US foreign policy).
2025
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